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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CSU Maritime. [/quote]

Nope: mandatory Corps of Cadets.[/quote]

Sure, but OP is looking for safety schools. It seems foolish to write off a program like Maritime just because of Corps of Cadets. [/quote]

Hi, OP here. He 100% will not entertain something like that - [b]he considers it playing military and doesn't have much in common with the people who choose it.[/b] I get it, DH supports his choice, and we will not push. I'm just glad he's willing to consider NROTC now (though I get why it's a distant choice, too - Navy isn't his first choice). [/quote]

I get not pushing, but this is a bizarre stance and a sweeping stereotype. Didn't you say in the old thread that your kid wants West Point or Annapolis? That is "playing military" moreso than the Corps of Cadets. Schools with "military slants" are typically the Service Academies or Corps of Cadet programs. ROTC programs run the gamut and some are bigger than others, but outside SAs or CoC programs, ROTC programs don't impact the culture of a school enough to give it a "military slant". Each program will have a military slant and most schools have some sort of (N)ROTC program either shared or designated to that school. [/quote]

In his defense, an academy or ROTC leads to a commission. It's the real world, with real consequences. [b]A Corps of Cadets program is for college students who want the trappings of the military without the commitment or sacrifice.[/b] So, yeah. It's playing military.[/quote]

That’s not wholly true. The Corps of Cadet programs I’m familiar with have a civilian program alongside an ROTC program for students who plan to enlist, and those lead to commissions. [/quote]

It depends. CSU Maritime, for example, requires participation in the Corps of Cadets but not all students are ROTC midshipmen/cadets. At places like Texas A&M, Corps of Cadets is not required, but most who participate are not in a commissioning program as well.[/quote]

Exactly, it depends on the program. OP’s DS is wholly dismissing schools based on faulty information (not to mention sweeping judgment of its participants). Schools that might actually be a good fit. VT has a civilian leadership and an ROTC track in their Corps and I’m pretty sure VMI is the same, not sure about the Citadel b/c my ROTC kid didn’t look into that program.

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Unless it leads to a commission, it's just gross, offensive play-acting. Who wants to be around that? [/quote]

If this is the OP, wow, good luck to you. One undercurrent that has been embedded in each of the 2-3 threads you've started about your kid is his limiting, judgmental views and it's pretty clear where they're coming from. West Point or bust. (And even students in the service academies drop out before enlisting so he'd be stuck around those "gross, offensive play-acting" peers too, how will he survive?) [/quote]

NP with an honest question, though: why pretend to the be in the military when you have no intentions of actually joining?[/quote]

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